In an article published in the journal BMJ Case Reports, scientists warned that overdosing on vitamin D
As the authors of the article “hypervitaminosisvitamin D can cause many serious health problems. For example, some time ago they had to hospitalize a middle-aged man because of this. He complained to his doctor about recurrent vomiting, nausea, leg cramps, tinnitus, abdominal pain, dry mouth, diarrhea, weight loss (by 12.7 kg), and intense thirst. Moreover, all these symptoms did not disappear for almost three months, but these signs arose about 30 days after the patient began taking vitamin supplements on the recommendation of a nutritionist.
It turned out that the man had manyhealth problems. These are tuberculosis, and a tumor of the inner ear (because of this, he became deaf in one ear), and the accumulation of fluid in the brain, and chronic sinusitis, and bacterial meningitis.
The fact is that the patient took every dayhigh doses of over 20 over-the-counter nutritional supplements. These supplements contained vitamin D (50,000 mg, with a daily requirement of 600 mg), vitamin K2 (100 mg, with a daily requirement of 100–300 mcg), vitamin C, vitamin B9, vitamin B2, etc.
The results of the analyzes demonstrated thatmen after taking these supplements had extremely high calcium levels and slightly elevated – magnesium In addition, he had 7 times more vitamin D in his blood than needed.
In addition, it was found that the man's kidneys did not work as they should. In other words, he had acute kidney failure.
The authors of the article emphasize that the symptoms"Overdose" of vitamin D can persist for several weeks. Among other possible signs of vitamin D hypervitaminosis, experts called drowsiness, apathy, confusion, depression, psychosis, coma, stupor, anorexia, vomiting, abdominal pain, constipation, pancreatitis, peptic ulcers, pulse disorder, high blood pressure, kidney abnormalities, deafness or hearing loss, joint stiffness, keratopathy.
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